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The once-notable poetry series form Princeton University Press has experienced something of a dry spell over the past two decades — until now. The press relaunched its poetry series by...

A French blogger named Stephen Crowe is illustrating Finnegan’s Wake. Surprisingly, the images are not necessarily dream-like, and closely resemble the familiar cartoonishness of contemporary children’s books. It’s not...

The University of Virginia issued its report on the audit of the Virginia Quarterly Review yesterday, a process instigated by the July 30th suicide of Managing Editor Kevin Morrissey and...

When former poet laureate Robert Pinksy dropped by a Seattle high school to lecture on the power of poems, Seattle Pi blogger E. Magunsum was a little skeptical. He'd always...

With every season comes a new Shakespeare scandal, and this autumn it seems the debate over the Bard's sexuality has been rekindled by Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets: A New Commentary by...

Adam Roberts writes and teaches poetry, yet he still easily identifies with staunch poetry haters who practically break out in hives at the sight of a poem. The party line...

Apple has not hesitated to tout the "runaway success" of the iPad since its launch in April, and with almost 7.5 million sold, why not? So where does this leave...

Lest any deceased poet feel left out, there's not one but two Beat movies making the rounds at the London Film Festival. "Howl" still echoes across the blogosphere, and Charles...

Scottish rocker Mike Scott of the Waterboys fame has always been known for his eclectic musical tastes, but his latest project surpasses expectations. His most recent album, "An Appointment...

Camilo José Cela, the late Spanish Nobel prize-winning poet and novelist, is posthumously in hot water for a plagiarism case that was recently reopened after decades, reports the New Yorker: The...